| A | B |
| Lenin | Leader of the Communist Revolution in 1917 |
| Marx | Wrote the The Communist Manifest |
| Czardom | The type of Govt.Communism replaced |
| Democracy | The govt. form in the United States |
| Communism | A political system where the govt. controls the economy |
| Stalin | The leader of Russia after WWII, industrialized Russia |
| 11 | # of time zones in Russia |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | How East-West Russia is connected |
| Russia's Massive size | 6.6 million square miles |
| taiga | a vast area of forests |
| tundra | cold, treeless plains |
| Lake Baikal | World's deepest lake |
| Volga River | Russia's longest river |
| Czar | emperor |
| serfs | peasants |
| Cold War | Race for political influence w/out direct war |
| glasnost | openness |
| borsch | soup made from beets |
| St Petersburg | a "European" City |
| Moscow | a city of 11 million people |
| Kennedy | US President during Cuban Missile Crisis and the Space Race |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | USSR wanted to park nuclear weapons in Cuba, we said, "NO!" |
| Sputnik | First satelite in space |